From: Raleigh McLemore (raleighmclemore@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jun 24 2004 - 07:40:51 PDT
Message-ID: <20040624144051.27980.qmail@web40204.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:40:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Raleigh McLemore <raleighmclemore@yahoo.com> Subject: Bromine for idiots
To any exhausted teachers who are too tired or broke to go anywhere and are sitting around reading Pinhole because they can't get the energy to do whatever it was they planned during the last few months of school.
I'm looking at a blotchy, brown stain (looks quite a bit like rust) on some stainless steel that smears easily. It's near a source of water that is treated with bromine (that isn't supposed to be leaking into the atmosphere). I've never actually done an environmental test for something like bromine.
Do I wipe the brown stain from the pipe and test the swab?
Do I "wash" some of the stain off and test the liquid?
Do I lick the area and then watch for tongue decay?
Is there a simple test for bromine (Here's where I expect Paul to say "Rub a bannana on the test area, put the stained bannana in a coffee maker, then pour vinegar through the bannana and look for movement"...or something like that)?
Would bromine, presumably combined in a water mist, be statically attracted to pipes with water running through them (an odd part of this mystery is that the blotchy brown stain is located only on pipes that are outboard of inner pipes...that is the mist seems to condense immediately on the first pipes it reaches and doesn't seem to reach the next pipes in a series)? How do I find the static charge of a bromine mist?
With firm handshake,
Raleigh
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